Critical Mass (working title)

Due to a relatively regular asking of the question, "Who's coming tonight?" (Tempest) I have ingeniously improvised a way to figure that out without even having to ask it!

BEHOLD: in this web page's right-hand column, all the way at the bottom, you will find a check-in poll. This feature allows -- nay, demands! -- you check in and lets others know of your intent to show up on any given Tuesday evening. (In order for this summer's little program to work, we're gonna need a certain numbers of tushes in the chairs. Using this system permits us (me) to see if we have reached the mass of people critical to hold a decent argument. See the last posting if you're confused about the arguing part.) The deadline for checking in is 3pm on whatever Tuesday is coming next. Check it at 3pm to see who and how many. If so many people are busy that we cannot reach the pre-determined number, we will just plan on doing it next week. Que sera, and all that.

Questions? I shall answer them. Thoughts? I shall ponder them. Fears? I shall jokingly prey upon them until you are sufficiently rattled, or I become bored. See you all Sunday!

Welcome to the Kickoff (Working Title)

School's out. You're staying up later and later, because there are no school nights. You're sleeping later and later, since your alarm has been gutted and sold for scrap metal. You have been on the couch so many hours it now bears your outline; every butt-print is unique.

According to the Sylvan Learning Centers TV commercial, kids lose a full decade of book knowledge over the summer. That means, and you can check my math here, that by September a 10th-grader ends up being the intellectual equal of a grey squirrel (sciurus carolinensis).

So, to keep your brain of dying of atrophy, I have labored (sort of) and over countless (four) books, and thusly developed an aggressive (again, sort of) summer schedule to ward off the further loss of your precious brain cells (general somatic afferent fibers).

"Working Title (working title)" will go like this. You will be divided into two teams (Jets & Sharks, since I love musical theatre). These teams will argue over a prearranged topic (who would win in a fight: a jet or a shark). The argument will proceed according to the Oxford rules of debate, and will be judged by a panel, ranging in size from one (me), to three (me, Pastor Dan, and Rodney). The panel will render it's findings, and surmise a victor. The topics will be both (a) relevant to the modern socio-political-economic-metaphysical ethos, as well as (b) biblical derived.

As always, you can find the date/time information by clicking on the relevant day up there on the Ye Olde Linear Planning Mechanism. Click the "comment" section for questions/ideas/frustrations/etc...

-dave

Moderately Warm Off The Presses!!

Shirley emailed thuis to that vast majority of you, but just to be sure:

The bus leaves Illinois, CHIC-bound, from Elgin Evangelical Covenant Church at 2 A.M. on July 12th. Once again: Bus! Elgin Cov! 2 A.M.! July 12th!

Direct all your questions back at me, I am ready for them. However, I'm not sure the exact return time yet. Other than that though, I'm question-ready.